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One of the leading lights of Marxism on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison brings home a sweet salary of $170,000 per year. The well-heeled sociology professor is Erik Olin Wright .. The tenured, capitalism-hating professor’s annual salary of $170,000 is $117,587 greater than the household income of a typical Wisconsin family and is in the top 2 percent of all Americans. Whil an average middle-class family in Wisconsin survives on $4,368 per month, the Marxist professor enjoys a cushy monthly income of $14,166. He will teach exactly two courses in the fall semester for this princely sum. ......

BOULDER, Colo. -- The University of Colorado said Thursday a professor who compared the victims of the World Trade Center attacks to Nazis doesn't reflect the views of the school but that he has a right to express his opinion. Also Thursday, a Colorado congressman called the comments "outrageous" and urged the professor, Ward Churchill, to resign while the brother of a man who died at the World Trade Center called Churchill a "nut case." Churchill, chairman of the ethnic studies program at CU, has been invited to speak next month at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., where news of...

A Marxist who teaches American government won some job security Monday when College of the Mainland board members granted him protection from being fired for his political views. The unanimous decision came after an emotional two-hour public hearing attended by dozens of students and others who supported David Michael Smith's application for tenure -- and many others who said he shouldn't be teaching American students anything. "I believe his views and philosophy are incompatible with a public institution of higher learning," said former Galveston County Judge Ray Holbrook, one of Smith's most outspoken opponents. "It seems clear to me that...